Oystertown » memories http://www.oystertown.net Whitstable and its people Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:22:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1959 – The Go Cart – a childhood memory http://www.oystertown.net/1950-1974/1959-the-go-cart-a-childhood-memory/ http://www.oystertown.net/1950-1974/1959-the-go-cart-a-childhood-memory/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:21:17 +0000 admin http://www.oystertown.net/?page_id=691 Narrator: Brian Baker Date: 2004

Here’s the scene. It’s 1959 and the Baker family are living at 112 Middle Wall, Whitstable. Even in those days Middle Wall was but a shadow of it’s heyday at the end of the 1800′s when it was the place to live if you were upwardly mobile. The house was actually two

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]]> http://www.oystertown.net/1925-1949/ww2/air-raids-in-london-and-whitstable/feed/ 0 V1 and V2 Rockets http://www.oystertown.net/1925-1949/ww2/v1-and-v2-rockets/ http://www.oystertown.net/1925-1949/ww2/v1-and-v2-rockets/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:26:40 +0000 admin http://www.oystertown.net/?page_id=479 Contributed by :            derbycsv People in story:              Elizabeth Innes-Smith Location of story:           Whitstable, Kent Background to story:     Civilian Article ID:                      A5024521 Contributed on:             12 August 2005

Whitstable was in the

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To those of us in the ‘Front

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Enid and her mother came to

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Born in

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In January 1941 I was living in the Coast Guard houses

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